[Dragaera] agnosticism (no flame) (was, long ago: (no spoilers) The 17 [Great Weapons])

[Howard Brazee]

On 5/23/2007 Alain Feeny wrote:
>  The answer of course being that the nature of God is to be unknowable.

That is the answer when other methodologies fail and we don't wish to 
discard the concept altogether.   Except that most theists seem to know 
what god wants (even as they disagree with other theists). 

In Dragaera I there are interactions that can be measured, statistics to 
be gathered, and conclusions to be drawn.   The gods do exist (or at 
least interact) within nature and are thus natural.

Which leads to the question "What is supernatural?".   Vlad has left his 
world in at least 2 different places, and I don't know what is outside 
the tower at Castle Black.   Are those places natural?    I would say 
that if it exists, it is natural.   If there is no hard evidence that it 
exists, it is supernatural.   Since magic exists in Dragaera, it is part 
of nature, and science applies.